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Angel and the Badman · Beat 232 · permalink

Field

1:18:27–1:18:50 Released 1947; registered 1946

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:18:371:18:37Frame at 1:18:481:18:48

Play from 1:18:27 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 105 · shots 475–476. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
field (field, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing a light-colored cowboy hat, dark coat, and dark neckerchief; medium build, appears mid-adult visible, audible
  • man wearing a wide-brimmed cowboy hat, dark shirt, and vest; standing beside a horse; medium build, appears mid-adult visible
Seen happening
  • One man stands beside a horse while another faces him. [frame:1]
  • The man in the light hat looks toward the other man. [frame:1]
  • The man in the light hat is shown in close-up, looking slightly downward. [frame:2]
Also said
“Except you were thinking too hard.” 78:36 · “But I always like to keep track of your whereabouts.” 78:45
Seen
cowboy hat, horse, neck scarf, coat, cowboy hat, neck scarf, coat
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and personal; themes: confrontation, watchfulness, unspoken tension; style notes: medium shots and close-ups under natural outdoor lighting; framing emphasizes face-to-face confrontation

Two men in cowboy hats are outdoors in a rocky, arid landscape; one stands beside a horse while the other faces him. Dialogue suggests a tense, personal exchange about intentions and whereabouts.

“Pony walks as soft as you do.” 78:28 · “Oh, I figured you'd have hurt him.” 78:32 automatic transcript, may be wrong

The record

No renewal found An automated finding, not a verdict. A renewal would have appeared in the Copyright Office's renewal registrations 27 to 29 years after the term began. Those volumes are loaded and our parse of them found no matching renewal. If that is right, a work published 1931–1963 that was not renewed entered the public domain at the end of its 28th year; the volumes are OCR of old print, and the method page reports how often the parse has been found to miss one. Evidence dossier. The finding concerns the US copyright record for the film; it is not clearance for any use, and this page's annotation is machine output.

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Frame from Angel and the Badman (1947) at 1:18:37 (passage 1:18:27–1:18:50); US record: No renewal found

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